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policy aligned with the constitution when foreign policy has become so monolithic so lacking in debate that republicans and democrats routinely pass foreign policy statements without debating without votes where are the calls for moderation the calls for restraint anyone who questions the bipartisan consensus is immediately castigated rebuked and their patriotism challenged sounded a little like his father there are others though are weary of the younger paul in question just how closely his beliefs resemble that of his father to discuss i'm joined now by matt welch editor in chief for reason welcome mat. so has red been able to appeal to a conservative base that his father repulsed. yes already in the very fact that we were the heritage foundation in february of two thousand and thirteen or just two years of heritage banging the drums for more funding and a more robust. sense there was about one month before the november point kind of election to the tea party and ram all this off as the heritage presidents and as owner of heroes of sirius pieces with american enterprise institute hea
policy aligned with the constitution when foreign policy has become so monolithic so lacking in debate that republicans and democrats routinely pass foreign policy statements without debating without votes where are the calls for moderation the calls for restraint anyone who questions the bipartisan consensus is immediately castigated rebuked and their patriotism challenged sounded a little like his father there are others though are weary of the younger paul in question just how closely his...
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. >> foreign policy is actually not foreign. >> america has faced great hardship before and each time we have risen to the challenge. >> the ultimate test is to move our society from where it is to where it has never been. >> join us as we explore today's most critical global issues. join us for great decisions. >> great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association, inspiring americans to learn more about the world. sponsorship of great decisions is provided by credit suisse, eni, the hurford foundation, and pricewaterhousecoopers llp. >> coming up next, the intervention calculation. (instrumental music) >> historically the u.s. leaned heavily on strategic interventions to help counter the influence of communism. >> the reagan doctrine was a notion that we would support those that sought to oppose soviet domination. >> during the cold war there was a polarized world - there was the soviet union, there was the united states and a lot of our interventions were used to block the advance of communism, and so very ideological basis for our, our interventions. >> and the u.s. has
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my country because i was criticizing our foreign policy and the fact of what the hell are we doing in iraq. these terrible things happen when you put these young boys in these worlds where they don't understand what they're fighting for why they are. so i can understand why all over things were being followed all the time we probably are your drama we docked it which still is what the war in iraq provoked political debates in america with claims it portrays the us soldiers and that it's a flight. sensitive to such critique even your films title makes it clear that the truth about the war in iraq has been edited and he didn't fund them or it can public unfortunately america you can never say anything negative about the troops even though they're over in a country they shouldn't be doing things where a lot of innocent civilians are getting killed. they're all valued warriors. well i think our foreign policy is incorrect i don't think we should have been in iraq it was i think we were lied to by our government and what happens when you put young boys in situations where they don't know w
my country because i was criticizing our foreign policy and the fact of what the hell are we doing in iraq. these terrible things happen when you put these young boys in these worlds where they don't understand what they're fighting for why they are. so i can understand why all over things were being followed all the time we probably are your drama we docked it which still is what the war in iraq provoked political debates in america with claims it portrays the us soldiers and that it's a...
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. >> i would argue that a more restrained foreign policy is the true conservative foreign policy. >> the average american is not thinking about and trying to wonder about where the republican party s they're thinking about how to make their life work. >> your leader in the house right there eric cantor, where is this debate headed? >> i think it's a good debate for the republican party to have. when you lose an election, you ought to be a little bit reflective and ought to think back and ought to begin to say, what do we need to do differently? we didn't do badly in the election but the president won with less than he was elected in '0, lower popular vote, lower electoral vote. held the house, 30 governors. the idea this is some existential crisis is overdone i think but we didn't win so what do we need differently. i like what we're hearing and like the direct line that governor jindal took because i think we have -- >> can't be too smart. >> we nearly were in the fiscal cliff and could have triggered a big tax increase. i don't want to be stupid but you also need to be principled a
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of the people of the world so say it with me the us foreign policy is a blowback inducing homicidal bull in a cultural religious and geo political china shop change. there is. it. for far. too many than. sitting. around. the world. it was not right. i started in iraq in two thousand and four in two thousand and six i was in the second battle of. allusion november two thousand and four as a human being and as a person who has a heart i can't lie to myself anybody else and say that we had a reason to be there that there's a reason for the million iraqis that died in the five thousand troops said that we say we're the greatest country in the world but we go into you know people in their country but we don't stop genocide in africa we don't help people that we can help that would be the greatest country in the world if we can save a million people instead of killing them and people if you're not convinced our foreign policy is morally bankrupt perhaps we should talk about money taxpayers in united states have need one point four trillion dollars for total war spending in iraq and afghan
of the people of the world so say it with me the us foreign policy is a blowback inducing homicidal bull in a cultural religious and geo political china shop change. there is. it. for far. too many than. sitting. around. the world. it was not right. i started in iraq in two thousand and four in two thousand and six i was in the second battle of. allusion november two thousand and four as a human being and as a person who has a heart i can't lie to myself anybody else and say that we had a...
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of the people of the world so say it with me the us foreign policy is a blowback inducing homicidal bull in a cultural religious and geo political china shop change. there was handed. down. to the family. sitting. around. the world. it was not right. i served in iraq in two thousand and four and two thousand and six i was in the second battle of. allusion november of two thousand and four as a human being and as a person who has a heart i can't lie to myself anybody else and say that we had a reason to be there that there's a reason for the million iraqis that died in the five thousand to said we say we're the greatest country in the world but we go and kill you know people in their country but we don't stop genocide in africa we don't help people that we can help that would be the greatest country in the world if we can save a million people instead of killing them and people if you're not convinced our foreign policy is morally bankrupt perhaps we should talk about money taxpayers in united states have need one point four trillion dollars for total war spending in iraq and afghani
of the people of the world so say it with me the us foreign policy is a blowback inducing homicidal bull in a cultural religious and geo political china shop change. there was handed. down. to the family. sitting. around. the world. it was not right. i served in iraq in two thousand and four and two thousand and six i was in the second battle of. allusion november of two thousand and four as a human being and as a person who has a heart i can't lie to myself anybody else and say that we had a...
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pretty much everything you'd expect except who are much like oh how obama's policies in foreign in foreign policies appear because obama appears to be. kinder and friendlier then. he's in fact escalated his foreign policy in much the same way he has escalated his education bush's education policy so you can consider it to be educational drone warfare where the students are turning into the drones. and that's ridiculous it's very true yeah the rebranding effort i mean i guess it just goes on every single facet of his visitation it seems like there's so much frustration about the public education system that people are pushing for the only alternative that they hear about which of course is this privatization what is the danger of treating education like a commodity though. well then students become a commodity. i mean education educational system and our communities are how we form young people and if we standardized tests we standardized our children i know that sort of. a slogan more than anything but as a community college professor i'm not just a researcher i mean i'm on the ground i ju
pretty much everything you'd expect except who are much like oh how obama's policies in foreign in foreign policies appear because obama appears to be. kinder and friendlier then. he's in fact escalated his foreign policy in much the same way he has escalated his education bush's education policy so you can consider it to be educational drone warfare where the students are turning into the drones. and that's ridiculous it's very true yeah the rebranding effort i mean i guess it just goes on...
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. >> foreign policy is actually not foreign. >> america has faced great hardship before and each time we have risen to the challenge. >> the ultimate test is to move our society from where it is to where it has never been. >> narrator: join us as we discuss today's most critical global issues. join us for "great decisions." >> great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association, inspiring americans to learn more about the world. sponsorship of great decisions is provided by credit suisse, eni, the hurford foundation, and pricewaterhousecoopers llp. >> coming up next, the generals and the democrat: burma in transition. (instrumental music) >> burma, also known as myanmar, is a nation born from war. a former british colony, burma saw an opportunity for independence at the outset of world war ii. >> in burma, independence day calls for formal celebrations. this week its people have been marking 64 years since the end of british colonial rule. for much of that time burma was tightly controlled by the military. any dissent was ultimately crushed. >> so if you look at the modern h
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so i'm confident that women and girls will remain a singular essential part of american foreign policy. >> while she was secretary, clinton teamed the state department up with the gallup organization. that to collect hard evidence of the impact of investing in women and girls. clinton hopes it will be a tool for making a persuasive argument for such investments in the future and valuable policy information. >> we have strong evidence that women play roles in all kinds of things, and in particular, in peace-keeping and conflict prevention. they raise issues in these kinds of negotiations, like human rights and human security. that are fundamental to forging a lasting and sustainable peace but we need more internationally comparable data to examine women's contributions affect conflict regions and only, then, can we really create 401(k)l0s for making sure they were included. >> secretary clinton logged nearly 1 million miles traveling to more than 100 countries, meeting with women and girls as part of her agenda whenever possible. >> that's good. very good. good for you. >> and she hoste
so i'm confident that women and girls will remain a singular essential part of american foreign policy. >> while she was secretary, clinton teamed the state department up with the gallup organization. that to collect hard evidence of the impact of investing in women and girls. clinton hopes it will be a tool for making a persuasive argument for such investments in the future and valuable policy information. >> we have strong evidence that women play roles in all kinds of things, and...
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pretty much everything you'd expect except who are much like oh how obama's policies in foreign in foreign policies appear because obama appears to be. kinder and friendlier and. he's in fact escalated his foreign policy in much the same way he has escalated it is education bush's education policy so you can consider it to be educational drone warfare where the students are turning into the drones but that's ridiculous it's very true yeah the rebranding effort i mean i guess it just goes on every single facet of his visitation it seems like there's so much frustration about the public education system that people are pushing for the only alternative that they hear about which of course is this privatization what is the danger of treating education like a commodity though. well then students become a commodity. i mean education educational system and our communities are how we form young people and if we standardized tests we've standardized our children i know that sort of. slogan more than anything but as a community college professor i'm not just a researcher i mean i'm on the ground i j
pretty much everything you'd expect except who are much like oh how obama's policies in foreign in foreign policies appear because obama appears to be. kinder and friendlier and. he's in fact escalated his foreign policy in much the same way he has escalated it is education bush's education policy so you can consider it to be educational drone warfare where the students are turning into the drones but that's ridiculous it's very true yeah the rebranding effort i mean i guess it just goes on...
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clinton had no background in foreign policy, no interest in the foreign policy. people say they went to georgetown, the school really wasn't good enough as i am concerned. i hope i am not offending anyone in georgetown she put together a security team all of them were gone within a year or two for the most part when you look at christopher and the cia was a very peculiar appointment. he did something that needs to be corrected. he was in the foreign policy bureaucracy as i am concerned he brought to the right wing and abolishing the arms control and disarmed the agency. those we need in washington for the making of policy and he expanded nato you're taking the military and a that is a factor or not and bring more members to draw closer to russia and even bring in as george bush did the former hud republics of the soviet union into this alliance and you wonder why the russians are upset about this and he lost his nerve on the things the country needed to do in terms of international agreements need to be a part of the accord and signed a comprehensive test ban tre
clinton had no background in foreign policy, no interest in the foreign policy. people say they went to georgetown, the school really wasn't good enough as i am concerned. i hope i am not offending anyone in georgetown she put together a security team all of them were gone within a year or two for the most part when you look at christopher and the cia was a very peculiar appointment. he did something that needs to be corrected. he was in the foreign policy bureaucracy as i am concerned he...
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foreign policy and national security in the world. to move from an era of war, which we have been in for a number of years, to the next phase in terms of american leadership in the world so yes, the president determined as he said during the campaign in 2008 that we would withdraw from iraq and we have withdrawn from iraq an iran asi asi iraq stands on its own as a sovereign state. the president has said in conjunction with our allies, by the way, at the lisbon nato summit and confirmed at the chicago summit on afghanistan, nato summit, that the united states and the troops would complete the military mission in afghanistan by december 31st, 2014 and we are on track to meet that goal. >> and how many troops will remain after that? that's the question. >> yes, today we have about 67 or 66 or 67,000 troops in afghanistan. >> right. >> the president has said and we will implement this, that there will be a reduction in those drops at a steady pace between now and the end of the year, 2014, so that is essentially 23 months from now. and w
foreign policy and national security in the world. to move from an era of war, which we have been in for a number of years, to the next phase in terms of american leadership in the world so yes, the president determined as he said during the campaign in 2008 that we would withdraw from iraq and we have withdrawn from iraq an iran asi asi iraq stands on its own as a sovereign state. the president has said in conjunction with our allies, by the way, at the lisbon nato summit and confirmed at the...